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black-room-boy
black-room-boy

Reputation: 659

How to match one character plus space with PHP preg_replace

Inside my text I have this output:

Å apat

I want to search for 'Å ', note Å + space. and Convert it to 'Š'.

So basically I want to find this letter followed with space and replace it with just one letter without space.

String replace can not do this, and I am not very good with regex, I have tried this but it does not work:

$return = preg_replace('/[Å\s]/', 'Š', $return);

Can someone help me please ?

NOTE: this word "Å apat" does not have to be at the start of sentence, most of the time it is somewhere in the middle.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 978

Answers (4)

Casimir et Hippolyte
Casimir et Hippolyte

Reputation: 89557

It seems you are trying to solve an encoding problem (and probably only a display problem) with a string replacement.

It's not the way to go!

Let's see what happens:

If you looks at your string with an hex viewer you will find this hex sequence: C5 A0

But depending of the context, this sequence can be interpreted in two different ways:

C5 A0 = Š (C5A0 in utf8 encoding) = Å (C5 in unicode) + NO-BREAK SPACE (A0 in unicode)

So it seems that the problem is that your string is displayed as a sequence of unicode code points instead of a utf8 encoded string.

I assume that the problem comes from the html page that hasn't the good encoding information. Try to add information about the page encoding between head tags:

  • html5: <meta charset="UTF-8"/>
  • html4: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

Link: chartable with unicode code point and utf8 encoding

Upvotes: 1

Pedro Lobito
Pedro Lobito

Reputation: 98921

No need for a regex here, use str_replace

$string = "Å apat";
echo str_replace("Å ", "Š", $string);
//Šapat

Demo:

https://ideone.com/EXrwgW

Upvotes: 0

vks
vks

Reputation: 67968

$re = "/Å\\s/m";
$str = "Å apat";
$subst = "Š";

$result = preg_replace($re, $subst, $str);

This should do it for you.See demo

Upvotes: 3

Andie2302
Andie2302

Reputation: 4887

This should help you:

$result = preg_replace('/Å /', 'Š', $text);

What your regex [Å\s] does is:
Match a the character Å or any whitespace character and replace it with Š

Upvotes: 0

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